Brett Haggard, Aki Anastasiou, Steven Ambrose and Charlie Fripp gather in a corridor at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona for a report back on what the industry had to show off. Topics include:

• NFC everywhere, but will it take-off?
• The new phones and tablets launched at the show (including the Huawei Ascend P2, Nokia Lumia 520 and 720, Samsung’s Note 8.0, Sony’s Xperia Tab 10 and the HP Slate 7);
• The other gadgets launched at MWC (including the Olloclip for iPhone 5, Jabra Revo Wireless/Wired headphones and the I’mWatch); and
• New services and software (including the TruPhone service, AppMachine, Firefox OS and Ubuntu OS).

Our technology picks of the week are:

• Charlie Fripp: I’mwatch.
• Steven Ambrose: Fujitsu’s Raku-Raku F-12D smartphone and Sony’s Xperia 10 Tablet.
• Aki Anastasiou: CNN’s Christy Lu Stout, Nokia’s 105 and NFC .
• Brett Haggard: Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 and Nokia Lumia 520.